MHealth in Urology: A Review of Experts' Involvement in App Development.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Smartphones are increasingly playing a role in healthcare and previous studies assessing medical applications (apps) have raised concerns about lack of expert involvement and low content accuracy. However, there are no such studies in Urology. We reviewed Urology apps with the aim of assessing the level of participation of healthcare professionals (HCP) and scientific Urology associations in their development.

Material and methods

A systematic search was performed on PubMed, Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store, for Urology apps, available in English. Apps were reviewed by three graders to determine the app's platform, target customer, developer, app type, app category, price and the participation of a HCP or a scientific Urology association in the developm

SUBMITTER: Pereira-Azevedo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4436179 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature